Cat food-Thoughts?

[Col]

Its not hypocritical to buy meat for your cat if your a vegan, but that cat food also comes from the same farmers that slaughters animals so if you do then it is hypocritical to go off at someone that eats meat. This is where the problem comes in why society bash on vegans. Of your hands have blood on it then you have no right to tell meat eaters that all animal lives matter and they are crual assholes for eating meat. You cant just choose what to support when it suits you.

Not exploiting or harming animals as much practicable is different to choosing to not spill blood only when it suits you, which would be a type of hypocrisy, I don't think it is wrong to ask anyone, vegan or not, to try not to spill blood without calling names or bashing .
There is the issue that it is biologically is harder for cats to be vegan than people for whom it is biologically easy.
The availability of plant-based cat food I think is a wonderful thing enabling the end of slaughter houses.
One should remember though any human can be vegan, including those who are not vegan already and who have existing cats - it is about doing as much as one can.

 

[Lou]

We used to have a resident expert on this topic, @Vegan Dogs.
She stopped posing a few years ago but here is a link to one of her post and you can go on from there.

Post in thread 'Pet food'

Nov 6, 2022

Hi,

I've been a vegetarian all of my life, and have recently started transitioning to veganism which isn't too hard diet wise but a little tricky since I'm still at school and I'm living with my parents who cook at
lot with cheese, eggs etc.

We have two cats and I'm having trouble with the idea that most pet foods are probably not ethically sourced or held to the same standards as food produced for human consumption. At the moment my parents pay for pet food but I struggle with the idea of contributing to the meat industry in the future if I have my own pets. On the other hand, I...

• Vegan Dogs

 

[fakei]

One could raise the question how someone who goes through great lengths to show animals should not be kept in cages, exploited, suffer any harm or anything against their nature, or be given preferential treatment over other animals, or say people don't have the right to do this even for dietary reasons, when either by ignorance, way of life, food available or force of habit the change may not be easy, will at the same time do all these things either by keeping them confined, castrating, sterilising them, giving them drugs, unnatural foods, buying dead animals to feed them, introducing them in regions where they may cause damage to other species, under the solo justification that he or she needs to do it to feel good.

BTW I'm not pointing the fingers at others but to myself, I have a turtle, who eats around 4kg of fish every year. She's not native and been around for 16 year so it's not possible to release her.

Whatever the answer to the above, anyone who already has commited himself or herself to a cat should look at the phosphorus levels since it causes kidney damage to cats.

 

[Lou]

Satirical message below. please don't kill me.

How about we take a page out of Swift's or Foer's books. Swift, in the Modest Proposal, suggested feeding Irish children to the upper class brits to solve the "Irish Problem". . Foer in Eating Animals. proposed eating stay dogs to reduce the stray dog population.

So how about we just round up all the stray cats and turn them into cat food?

 

[fakei]

Satirical message below. please don't kill me.

How about we take a page out of Swift's or Foer's books. Swift, in the Modest Proposal, suggested feeding Irish children to the upper class brits to solve the "Irish Problem". . Foer in Eating Animals. proposed eating stay dogs to reduce the stray dog population.

So how about we just round up all the stray cats and turn them into cat food?

The first reminds Wells's Eloi and Morlocks in reverse.